I don't know where you have been looking, but there are no problems with
the css (auth and encryption) code in linux .. except for being a little
awkward
to use.
The main problems at the moment are trying to figure out the IFO file format
and getting an optimized mpeg2 player -- hopefully using some hardware
acceleration -- probably very limited though, due to the usual
Windows-centric
attitude of hardware manufacturers.
check out the LiVID dvd mailing list to see where they're at .. latest
sources
can be gotten from their cvs repository.
http://livid.on.openprojects.net/
Warm Regards,
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Iain Wade - Optus Internet
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From: Adam Owensby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 1:32 PM
Subject: DVD and MPEG-2
> Ladies and Gents,
> I bought a DVD player from toshiba a couple days ago. I used windows to
play
> a couple dvd movies. the quality blew. i bought a holleywood+ card (both
> early chanukah gifts for myself :-) the movies and mpg files play
excellent
> and the tv out is awesome, under windows. i had not booted windows for
> months before i bought this new hardware. the only things about this is i
> could find for linux were some patchy little programs which seg faulted on
> me which play mpeg2 streams which are already decrypted, which can be done
> (illegaly) with the proper programs and 7 gigs of HD space, but this is
not
> a solution. i know that most companies can't get the css decryption codes,
> but what is the deal here? is it more important to have the player and
have
> it be closed source with css decryption so the thing would work or have a
> gpl'ed player which doesn't get the job done? this is for a plain and
simple
> dvd drive. let alone my holleywood+ card. i guess i should get into driver
> writing, but does anyone have any other recommendations? anyone been down
> this path and found that one rpm which did the trick for you that i can't
> come up with? any projects i could help? what's the word?
>
> -adam
>
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